As Kermit the Frog once said "it’s not easy being green”.
It’s also not easy for frogs to be seen. But they are here, in your Adelaide Park Lands.
The hashtag #ProtectParksPete will soon be trending on social media. If you Love Your Park Lands, help us spread this hashtag, to bring it to the notice of the Premier, Peter Malinauskas as he prepares plans to slash more trees.
The Premier, Peter Malinauskas, has a vision: that your Park Lands must be profit centres, and that therefore Open, Green, Public land (as well as trees and biodiversity) must be subservient, or sacrificed to money-making imperatives, such as LIV golf.
There's uncertainty about the future of the three North Adelaide Golf Courses, on Possum Park / Pirltawardli (Park 1 of your Adelaide Park Lands) and the 85 species identified so far amongst the biodiversity of that Park.
Take our short survey to tell us about you and your Park Lands. What’s important to you? How could we improve our role?
It’ll take about nine minutes to choose your responses; and there are ten prizes of Park Lands merchandise to be won, for completed surveys.
The Premier, Peter Malinauskas is remaining tight-lipped about how your Adelaide Park Lands would be affected by proposals to "re-develop" the golf courses in Possum Park /Pirltawardli (Park 1).
For five years, the Adelaide Park Lands Association has been lobbying the City Council for permission to re-green one or more disused patches of bitumen in your Park Lands.
This Tuesday 13 August, one re-greening opportunity will come to a vote.
Please - contact City Councillors now, to ensure the project gets the go-ahead.
A City Council report on biodiversity has revealed the success of re-greening and habitat restoration in selected parts of your Park Lands.
The first survey of Park Lands biodiversity in 20 years identified new species of native bees, as well three species of microbats, an eel, and the re-emergence of rare grasses and wildflowers.